<--PREV Doc #1453  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #1455 Document #1454; June 3, 1955 To Winthrop Williams Aldrich Series: EM, AWF, Administration Series The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, Volume XVI - The Presidency: The Middle Way Part VIII: Toward "statesmanship of a high order"; June 1955 to November 1955 Chapter 16: Summitry at Geneva   Dear Winthrop: Thank you for your kindness in arranging to have an invitation for the opening of Parliament issued to Jacqueline Cochran. She is delighted--and will call you as soon as she reaches London.1 As yet I have no idea as to what plans will finally evolve for the "Summit" meeting, but I am grateful for your cordial invitation to stay with you at the Embassy. Foster will, I know, keep you informed.2 When next you see Lord Hamilton, please tell him that I am highly complimented to be referred to as the "Laird of Culzean." I am taking his speech, that you so kindly enclosed, along home with me this evening for reading.3 With warm regard, Sincerely 1 Eisenhower had written to Ambassador Aldrich on May 27 asking, as a personal favor and "without causing any violation of protocol or international relationships," that he obtain this invitation (AWF/A; see also Aldrich to Eisenhower, May 31, ibid.). 2 For background on arrangements for the summit meeting and Prime Minister Eden's request that Eisenhower meet with him in London beforehand see no. 1450; see also Telephone conversation, Eisenhower and Dulles, June 9, 1955, Dulles Papers, Telephone Conversations. For developments see no. 1479. 3 At a state banquet commemorating the opening of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, the Duke of Hamilton (representing the Queen as High Commissioner) had made this reference. His speech, delivered on May 24, is in AWF/A. Bibliographic reference to this document: Eisenhower, Dwight D. To Winthrop Williams Aldrich, 3 June 1955. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 1454. World Wide Web facsimile by The Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial Commission of the print edition; Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996, http://www.eisenhowermemorial.org/presidential-papers/first-term/documents/1454.cfm <--PREV Doc #1453  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #1455

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